Saturday, February 23, 2013

Could a deadly virus wipe us out - are we rolling the dice?

Credits: image by Stuart Miles on freedigitalphotos.net

Leading virologist Professor John Oxford, from the University of London,
says such an outbreak may not be as unlikely as we think.
A pandemic could kill us all if it gets hold. The symptoms of the new SARS-like coronavirus are a serious cough, a shortness of breath and a rise in temperature. Unfortunately, this sounds like the average common cold. But it kills and it can spread